new wanted hd trailer (added: mark millar speaks)

okay, i sorta think i remember reading something somewhere (but can't for the life of me remember where now or if it even exists) that the opening scene of the WANTED movie pays homage, if not addresses the missing Super Heroes and Villains-issue (from the Mark Millar comicbook source) in the movie (or lack thereof) ... and so suddenly this little poisonous seed of "hopeful imagination" develops that mayhap we get to see a "flashback" narrative SHOWING a world of Super Heroes and Villains duking it out??? or am i just mildly deluded and/or senile? ... until i get over this malady of sticking-by-thecomicbook-source hence disapproving-of-the-movie, PEEP the new HD trailer.


IMHO: the new "Joe-Blo"-become-assassin sitcom-narrative bugs me a tad, but Morgan and Jolie rawks lah ... and Jolie looks like a gaunt Jenn Garner-Elektra via back, innit? [Jolie screengrab via CBR] ... but the sequence with the man crashing thru the window gives me a slight ray of hope for the movies possibilities (also becoz i just watched director Timur Bekmambetov's DAYWATCH just and enjoyed it somewhat). heh. i am but a drone-sheep.

ADDED 10.03.08: Mark Millar (creator of WANTED) wrote this on his messageboard [via]:

"Like James McAvoy said Wondercon, I saw the movie two weeks back and thought it was spectacular. It's changed again from the shooting script as they refine and refine it, but every draft has been closer to the book and about 70% of the movie is now from the graphic novel. In fact, the reason I was there was to tweak little moments here and there to get it even CLOSER to the book.

Also, the changes actually work as there's just no way in Hell analogues of DC and Marvel characters can appear in a big mainstream movie... legally or creatively (since only our fellow geeks would get any of the gags). But the character is word for word identical and the plot, though slightly rearranged, is pretty much identical, the only difference being that the super-villains are now super-powered assassins. The final ending is a bit different from the shooting script, but absolutely bloody brilliant. I don't want to say too much about it right now (it's still too early), but I walked out of that screening and spent an hour on the phone to friends in the UK (despite the fact it was after midnight back home) gushing. I could not be happier about it and Angelina is absolutely brilliant. It's the best role she's ever done.

The big shock for me was how close this was to the source material and even the stuff that wasn't left it open for the sequels. So I'm really, really happy."

... please don't tease and taunt me like that, folks, i may not be able to take the blow ...